IF you are 30 or near it, you will think this is hilarious!!!! When Iwas a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribesabout how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walkingtwenty-five miles to school every morning .. uphill BOTH ways .through year 'round blizzards. Carrying their younger siblings on theirbacks ... to their one-room schoolhouse, where they maintained aStraight-A average, despite their full-time, after-school job at thelocal textile mill . where they worked for 35 cents an hour just tohelp keep their family from starving to death! And I remember promisingmyself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to laya bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easythey've got it!

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I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around andnotice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared tomy childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!

And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you'vegot it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If wewanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look itup ourselves, in the card catalog!!

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There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter.... witha pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it inthe mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!

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There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had tohitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you hadto wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usuallytalked over the beginning and messed it all up!

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We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phoneand somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it! And wedidn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you hadno idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, yourbookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!!

You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

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We didn't have any fancy Sony Play station video games withhigh-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like"Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked ! Your guy wasa little square! You actually had to use your imagination! And therewere no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever!And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harderand faster and faster until you died! .. Just like LIFE!

When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadiumseating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some oldbroad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you werejust screwed!

Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You hadto use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! Youwere screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off yourass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was noCartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on SaturdayMorning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK forcartoons, you spoiled little bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up ... wehad to use the stove or go build a frigging fire .. imagine that!

If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing andshake it over the stove forever like an idiot. That's exactly what I'mtalking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled.

This is honestly true. As a kid, we lived in Rochester NY, and the winters there were unbelievable, snow piled up so high we couldn't even open the front door. Well, my sis, cousin and I went to Catholic school, and we walked every day. I don't ever remember getting a "snow day". We walked to and from school in blizzards so bad you couldn't even see your feet. And, yep, walking to school was up hill

My kids could really care less about it when I say "you know, when I was your age........"